[1] Chanda gained prominence through her work in theatre, making her stage debut in 2013 as Nina in the Headlong production of The Seagull.
[2] The following year, she made her television debut with a guest appearance in an episode of the BBC One soap opera Holby City.
[3] She played Julia in the 2014 Royal Shakespeare Company production of The Two Gentlemen of Verona.
Chanda joined the main cast of the British-French science fiction production War of the Worlds for its second and third series, as Zoe.
[7] Chanda played Cassie in the stage adaptation of The Taxidermist's Daughter at the Chichester Festival Theatre in 2022.